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Coalition “fed” dodgy numbers on wind energy to Murdoch media
South Australia’s conservative opposition said to be source of dodgy numbers behind The Australian’s erroneous front page story on wind energy in the state.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 22, 2016

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Renewables

US study finds properties near wind farm enjoy huge increase in value
US study finds value of 931 properties surrounding El Paso wind farm increased by $65m in just 15 months.
Sophie Vorrath

Jun 27, 2016

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World’s largest wind farm study finds sleep disturbances aren’t related to turbine noise
Canadian study found wind turbines produce a maximum of forty six decibels, around the same as a dishwasher.
Simon Chapman

May 31, 2016

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Ban new wind turbines? Not if the bar for declaring them safe is impossibly high
How long do we wait for evidence of harm before accepting something is safe?
Rod Lamberts

Mar 30, 2016

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How big can wind turbines get?
The latest wind turbines have blade tips reaching up as high as the Gherkin in London. Next stop, Eiffel Tower.
Craig Morris

Feb 16, 2016

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Denmark blows past old wind record
Wind turbines generated 42 percent of demand last year in Denmark, topping the old record of 39 percent from the previous year.
Craig Morris

Jan 19, 2016

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World’s biggest floating wind farm approved in Scotland
Norwegian oil giant to build 30MW floating wind farm in North Sea after the world-first project was approved by Scottish government.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 3, 2015

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CleanTech Bites

Abbott promises to Do Something about wind turbines
Fate of Austalia’s RET in balance once again as Abbott vows to appoint wind commissioner, listen to Senate inquiry, and have CEFC push big solar.
Giles Parkinson

Jun 18, 2015

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Wind energy beats nuclear, CCS for global warming mitigation
The myth is that only nuclear can be scaled to sufficient capacity to reduce the impacts of global warming should be ignored.
Mike Barnard

Jul 30, 2014

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How often do wind turbines catch fire? And does it matter?
A new report tries to work out how big a problem wind turbines catching fire is, but there’s little data to work with.
Mat Hope and Simon Evans

Jul 21, 2014

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The desperate anti-wind tactics of fossil fuel promoters
Wind power is supported by a wide majority of Americans and evidence suggests that where there’s more wind power, there’s even more support – with benefits.
David Ward

Jun 25, 2014

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World wind energy capacity to double by 2020
Research firm Gobal Data has released figures stating that wind power will increase from from 319.6 Gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2013 to 678.5 GW by 2020.
Emma Fitzpatrick

Jun 16, 2014

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